Is Jaycee Horn pulling a "business decision McCaffrey" on us?!?

[TheBigKat]

He has enough tape out there to show he can be a lockdown but MAYBE he just doesn't want to play here?

He has been awfully slow to recover from his injuries at such a young age

Son of a former player who's also a man of questionable character https://assets.espn.go.com/nfl/news/2002/0128/1319126.html

I am starting to wonder if he's taking his sweet ole time to nurse those injuries, we don't pick up that 5th year option and he goes on to be a Saints legend lockdown CB

[onmyown]

[tukafan21]

No

CMC had years of never missing games and playing at a HOF level while doing so.

Horn hasn’t shown near enough on the field or enough health to slow walk a recovery to try and force a trade. 

Also, I never felt CMC did that, I thought at the end of both seasons is was more likely the team that shut him down, why risk further injury and hurt our draft position for him to play in a couple meaningless late season games.

[ChibCU]

As mentioned, CMC had full seasons and his long injury absences were as much of the team shutting him down as it was him being injured.

Horn will have completed his rookie contract and not even remembered as a Panther.

[Stuart Smith]

33 minutes ago, TheBigKat said:

He has enough tape out there to show he can be a lockdown but MAYBE he just doesn't want to play here?

He has been awfully slow to recover from his injuries at such a young age

Son of a former player who's also a man of questionable character https://assets.espn.go.com/nfl/news/2002/0128/1319126.html

I am starting to wonder if he's taking his sweet ole time to nurse those injuries, we don't pick up that 5th year option and he goes on to be a Saints legend lockdown CB

Probably.

[Tbe]

It’s in players best interest to get that big first contract.

JC would be an idiot to sabotage that.

[Waldo]

Unless his master plan is to hit free agency with no value past a prove it contract then it doesn't make much sense. CmC was already paid and it wasn't all his choice.

[Dave Gettleman's Shorts]

dude is already made of glass and you want him to return before he is ready??

[Cdparr7]

Didn’t he go on some weird twitter spree after the injury and supposedly block a ton of people 

[Move the Panthers to Raleigh]

Half the defense is making business decisions this year 

[Rocky Davis]

I will always believe CMC made sure to "save himself" when he had injuries the two years prior to being traded.  He was awesome for us and then got that bag.  Once that contract was signed he didn't come back from injuries which he could have....if he had wanted to.  The company line may have been the team shut him down, but CMC had no desire to be part of the dumpster fire Rhule was rolling out there.

Last year he stayed healthy and had some good games for us and when we fell out of contention the decision was made to trade him.  I don't disagree about trading him, but we then gave him his choice of the Rams or the 49ers.  Of course he chose to go play for Shanahan in San Francisco.  It all worked out so well for him and his model fiance - it was exactly what he wanted.

A year later he has been tearing it up and playing hard.  He got hurt last week and was back for the Vikings game.  If he was still a Panther he might have been done for the season.

This is my opinion and I appreciate his effort when he was here and establishing himself, but I will not be pulling for him to win  a Super Bowl etc. because he dogged it until he got what he ultimately wanted.  In hindsight I wish he would have just been honest when it was time to sign his big deal and told the Panthers he didn't want to be in Carolina or the East Coast.  He didn't and we got some draft picks, but we lost a very dynamic player who could have helped us......he just didn't want to - at least under Rhule. 

Edited October 25, 2023 by Rocky Davis

[hepcat]

As a player with an extensive pro injury list I can’t imagine Horn is in a hurry to return to an 0-6 team with nothing positive happening 

[MechaZain]

7 hours ago, TheBigKat said:

Son of a former player who's also a man of questionable character https://assets.espn.go.com/nfl/news/2002/0128/1319126.html

Yeah that proves it you cracked the case Sherlock

[electro's horse]

I will never fault a player for choosing his own body over playing through an injury or whatever. 
 

No one has any reason to doubt the severity of his injuries. Was he lying last year when he didn’t return from a broken arm?